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Making of The Dam Busters

Old 10th Mar 2021, 16:17
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I wonder how many actuals adopted brown shoes during the shooting

Richard Todd had a distinguished war career in which he was part of the parachute drop to support the taking of Pegasus bridge.
Indeed, he played his Boss I believe.
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Old 10th Mar 2021, 16:25
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Originally Posted by FlapJackMuncher
'National Treasure' Stephen Fry was writing the screenplay apparently.
Not sure if that is a good thing or not.
I believe he owns or owned the rights to the story.

During the filming the Lancs actually are filmed flying at 30ft, because when they watched the first takes shot at 60ft it looked a lot higher, so they reshot some at 30ft that looked on film like 60ft
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Old 10th Mar 2021, 17:07
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MPN 11. Minute 19:45. Four airframes, pilots and their sqns named. Thanks for that. I was lucky enough to meet Joe Kmiecik, when I was doing a refresher at Oakington in '73. "Just say "come here chick" quickly" Fascinating man to listen to, and I can well believe him flying at 30'. One of his party-pieces when he was flying Lancasters was a fast fly-by, pull to the vertical, cut two engines on one side, stall-turn into the dead engines and land off it.
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Looking at the Eder it looks like the crews assigned here had their work cut out with the bend in the river leaving little room for a safe run at the Dam.

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Old 11th Mar 2021, 14:02
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Originally Posted by Finningley Boy
Looking at the Eder it looks like the crews assigned here had their work cut out with the bend in the river leaving little room for a safe run at the Dam.

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When doing presentations on CHASTISE, I always sub-title the dams as: Moehne - the famous one, Sorpe - the pretty one and the Eder - the "how the hell did they do that?" one.
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Old 11th Mar 2021, 16:27
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Having done a Staff Ride to the dams some years ago I too was very impressed with the run-in to the Eder. Looking down from the castle (the IP) to the headland which marked the turning point to aim at the dam it all seemed very tight.

Back home I decided to have a ‘go’ in the sim, flying a 4 engined ac (C130) but with the benefit of auto throttle (to simulate the ENG) & radalt (the Nav). Even doing it by day I wasn’t able to get lined up properly and stable at 50ft, everything happened just too quickly.
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